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breathing reserve

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breathing reserve
n.
The difference between the volume of air breathed under ordinary resting conditions and the maximum breathing capacity.


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Nourry measured the breathing reserve in trained and untrained children and found, paradoxically, that while trained, sportive participants were breathing at higher lung volumes.
This would be equivalent to a breathing reserve of less than 30% (in other words, the subject is breathing at more than 70% of his/her MVV).
 
 
 
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